My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Time taken to read - 3 days

Pages - 372

Publisher -

Source - Aldi

Blurb from Goodreads

Nothing sucks more than fake dating a vampire in this paranormal romantic comedy from the USA Today bestselling author of My Roommate Is a Vampire.

Amelia Collins is by definition successful. She would even go so far as to say successfully single. But not according to her family, and she’s tired of the constant questions about her nonexistent dating life. When an invitation to yet another family wedding arrives, she decides to get everyone off her back once and for all by finding someone–anyone–to pose as her date.

After a chance encounter with Reginald Cleaves, Amelia decides he’s perfect for her purposes. He’s a bit strange, but that’s fine; it’ll discourage tough questions from her family. (And it certainly doesn’t hurt that he’s very handsome.) For centuries-old vampire Reggie, posing as her plus-one sounds like the ultimate fun. And if it helps his ruse of pretending to be human, so much the better.

As Amelia and Reggie practice their fauxmance, it becomes clear that Reggie is as loyal to her as the day is long, and that Amelia’s first impressions could not have been more wrong. Suddenly, being in a real relationship with Reggie sounds pretty fang-tastic.



My Review

I seen this on offer in Aldi for £2.99, hadn't read the author before and to be honest, they had me at vampire! Amelia is an accountant and her family are always hounding her for being single, Reginald aka Reggie is a very badly behaved flamboyant vampire who happens to be being hunted. When their paths cross an unlikely arrangement comes about. He agrees to be her plus one to a family event to get the vultures off her back after she helped him out. It all goes from there with some hilarity, silliness, romance and spice, twit twoo!

So this is book two but you can absolutely read it as a standalone. Amelia and Reggie are so very different, she is quiet and an absolute people pleaser to the point of her own discomfort and detriment. Reggie is a riot, he is being hunted for previous "crimes" committed to other vamps, he is chaos, cheeky and quite self involved. Something about Amelia brings a change though and we get to see a different side to Reggie.

We also see small snippets from his friend Frederick through correspondences, Frederick is so prim and proper (he is in book one which I am reading just now) and introduces Reggie into a form of journaling which gives us more insight into who he is. It is funny. cutesy, romantic, I liked the "crossed wires" between Amelia & Reggie, the contrast between Frederick & Reggie yet they are friends , 4/5. I am reading book one just now and will absolutely be getting book three.

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